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That's not arbitrage, just basic investment. Arbitrage is buying X at place A and selling X at place B.

Energy arbitrage means buying energy where it's low, and selling where it's high. The latter is missing here.

Investopedia: "Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset to profit from a difference in the price."

Deciding to mine bitcoin where energy is cheap is just bloody obvious.

> When I buy Bitcoin, as long as the energy used to mine the token is cheaper then energy I have access to, I’m getting a good deal.

So buying bitcoin from a base in Antarctica, where energy is scarce, is a better deal than buying it in Dubai? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

This article is enormously confused, even by bitcoin standards.

Is there any nation in which kids are less independent than in the U.S.?

I’m an atheist. I’ve worked with people who thought I’m going to hell. What am I going to do, get them all fired?

No. Just be polite and respectful to your colleagues. Not every stone needs to be turned.

What makes you think that those fantasy signal processing strategies were invented by (respectable) economists? Because they weren't.

I have a cronjob that does a "git fetch" every 5 minutes. That means I never pull. I merge-fastforward, and I rebase. Very satisfied with that workflow.

Yeah - "on average". The last couple of years have been an exceptional situation, since the federal funds rate is almost 0%.

Civilized countries don't have violent prisons.

> Every single holder of USD lost around 1-2% a year to inflation, which is essentially a backdoor tax.

That's only true of cash, and money in checkings accounts. Money deposited in savings accounts yields interest, which (on average) more than compensates for inflation.

That is by no means a fact. Nobody expected war in 1914, and most of the Great Powers did not want war. Franz Ferdinand was a force for moderation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A lot of domino stones had to fall for WWI to happen. By the way, I can recommend "The War that Ended Peace", excellent book about the causes of WWI.

The EU is a $16.5T economy, most of it on the internet, vastly underserved by internet companies compared to the U.S. Even Facebook was English only until 2008. Big business opportunities are being missed there.